Saving Wild Tigers, 1900-2000 : The Essential Writings/edited by Valmik Thapar. Delhi, Permanent Black, 2001, 411 p., photos, $33. ISBN 81-7824-005-X.

Contents: Introduction. 1. Of forests and foresters/Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot. 2. Game sanctuaries and game protection in India/E.P. Stebbing. 3. Various musings/Colonel A.I.R. Glasfurd. 4. Preserving wildlife in the United Provinces/F.W. Champion. 5. Why tigers become man-eaters/Jim Corbett. 6. An appeal for the preservation of wild life/Stanley Jepson. 7. The Wild animals of the Indian Empire/S.H. Prater. 8. The wildlife of India/E.P. Gee. 9. The world of the tiger/Richard Perry. 10. The deer and the tiger/George Schaller. 11. The future of the tiger/P.D. Stracey. 12. The twilight of the animals/B. Seshadri. 13. The skin trade/Kailash Sankhala. 14. The lost cause?/Billy Arjan Singh. 15. Tigers and man/Charles McDougal. 16. Radio-tracking the tiger/M.E. Sunquist. 17. Battling for wildlife in Bihar/S.P. Shahi. 18. Looking back on project tiger/M. Krishnan. 19. Bearing witness/John Seidensticker. 20. Back from the brink/Guy Mountfort. 21. If all the beasts were gone, man would die/Nicholas Courtney. 22. Problems and solutions/Peter Jackson. 23. Wildlife abuse/Alan Rabinowitz 24. Massacre/Geoffrey Ward. 25. Why save tigers?/John Seidensticker. 26. The brutal encounter: man and tiger/Ullas Karanth. 27. The status of the Indochinese tiger/Alan Rabinowitz. 28. Approaches to tiger conservation/John Seidensticker, Sarah Christie and Peter Jackson. 29. Roaring back/Steven Russell Galster and Karin Vaud Eliot. 30. Vision and process in securing a future for wild tigers/Sarah Christie, John Seidensticker and Peter Jackson. 31. Saving tigers in dry tropical habitats/R.S. Chundawat and Neel Gogate. 32. The big cat massacre/Valmik Thapar. 33. The future of the tiger in the twenty-first century/P.K. Sen. Further reading. Copyright statement.

"Dark shadows hang around the future of the tiger. This book is focussed around a century of tiger-conservation efforts around the world and encompasses the writings of some of the greatest champions and defenders of wild tigers. It is by understanding such conservation ideas and activities that we will be better equipped to deal with the enormous wildlife crisis of the present century. Saving wild tigers is the most challenging battle if we want to keep the natural world of this planet alive."

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